June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
...a specific (niche) market; the development of satellite constellations in low Earth orbit (LEO) based on smallsats, replacing the previous satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO). We can relate this to an underlying rationale to bring products to the...
26 September 2017
First Asian company partners with Blue Origin
... using space based solutions. According to its long term plan, the company will launch its own geostationary orbit satellite in 2021. It also has ambitions to become the first company to offer space tourism in Asia. “mu Space also...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
..., the United States government has vigorously prosecuted any individual thought to have obtained any lunar samples. Geostationary orbit has become its own economy, and parties involved in this sector have the full expectation that...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
... to intercept the fuel-hungry satellite and attempt the first-ever docking between two spacecraft near geostationary orbit early next year, so that it can reinvigorate the communications satellite; a life extension service that will cost...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...anti-satellite (ASAT) test of 11 January 2007. The tracked objects are typically larger than 10 cm in size (1 m in geostationary orbit at 36,000 km altitude), but a much larger amount of smaller debris, several hundred thousand items between 1 cm and...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
.... It was Arthur C. Clarke who, back in 1945, published his idea of three, equally spaced ‘radio beacons’ in a stable, geostationary orbit, thus providing near global and instant radio coverage. Today we have hundreds of large and powerful telecom...
